For the first AFC North game for the Cincinnati Bengals in 2024, this game is as important as any regular season game I can remember in the Joe Burrow era.

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And today we're going to get into why this game is so important for the Cincinnati Bengals beyond the obvious. Maybe there's nothing that's not obvious. It's very obvious. This game

is as important as it gets for a week five NFL game for this team. Talk about the paths to victory

for the Bengals in this game, what they must do to win as well.

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And James, can you think of a game, a regular season game in the Joe Burrow era that compared significantly, compared in significance,

I mean, to this game for the Cincinnati Bengals in week five?

Not this early. And I think that's the importance is, and we can go through games if you want.

There's been a lot of important games in the

Joe Barrow era, but not this early because this, put it like this, if the bills had beat

the Ravens the other night and they didn't come close, we're talking about an elimination

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